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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday upheld the conviction of Kerala CPM leader MV Jayarajan for calling state high court judges “idiots”, but reduced the sentence from six months to four months. An apex court bench headed by Justice Vikramajit Sen upheld Jayarajan’s conviction holding that he has no remorse for his utterances against high […]

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre on the plea of Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai against her “offloading” from a flight to London at the Delhi airport. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also issued notice to IB and Immigration Department seeking their responses on Pillai’s plea terming the “offloading” act as

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre on the plea of Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai against her “offloading” from a flight to London at the Delhi airport. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also issued notice to IB and Immigration Department seeking their responses on Pillai’s plea terming the “offloading” act as illegal and

In what may be beginning of a deluge of litigation in Indian cricket over questions of public law, the Rajasthan High Court has set forth to examine a question of “bias” in the selection of team for Ranji Trophy competition this year. Incidentally, the High Court admitted a writ petition by Rajasthan’s first class cricketer

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti on Friday installed a Provisional Electoral Council in a key step toward averting a constitutional crisis after weeks of protests and political uncertainty. The swearing in of the nine-member council representing different sectors of society took place at the Supreme Court shortly before a United Nations Security Council mission was due to arrive

NEW DELHI: CBI on Friday registered a fresh case in the coal block allocation scam against unknown government officials and Indal (Indian Aluminium Company), now Hindalco, for alleged irregularities in the use of coal from Talabira-I coal block. The company was allocated the block in 1994. The agency had last year closed its previous case

NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday made it clear that the party is unhappy with its senior leader Kapil Sibal for representing the West Bengal government in the Saradha chit fund scam case in the Supreme Court, two days after its state unit revolted against the move and complained to the party high command about its

Holding that the orders by the chief judicial magistrate were “illegal”, the special court for CBI on Tuesday declared that three of the accused in the admission scam for admission in Punjab Engineering College (PEC) which had hit headlines in October 2010, should be tried as adults. Accused Lovkesh Bhayana, Yogesh Bhayana and Garvit Nain

JALANDHAR: In a declaratory lawsuit filed by a US based rights group to designate Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” (FTO), a US Court has summoned US Secretary of state John Kerry to submit a reply within 60 days. The summons were issued by the District Court of Southern District of New

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the panchayat elections in Rajasthan. “Prima facie you have good case, but you have to satisfy the HC first,” apex court told the petitioner who has challenged govt decision. The top court also asked Rajasthan HC to decide expeditiously validity of state govt decision fixing